HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

2131.

Mancala (en.wikipedia.org)

45 points by shabda on Aug 19, 2020 | 19 comments

2132.

Medieval DNA suggests Columbus didn’t trigger syphilis epidemic in Europe (sciencemag.org)

45 points by Hooke on Aug 24, 2020 | 18 comments

2133.

MetaMask replaces MIT License, claims ownership of all forks (github.com)

45 points by kauffj on Aug 21, 2020 | 17 comments

2134.

Researchers in Germany are giving out scholarships in “idleness” (independent.co.uk)

45 points by sm4rk0 on Aug 26, 2020 | 15 comments

2135.

DIY Bertin Matrix with 569 Dominoes and No Glue (aviz.fr)

45 points by polm23 on Aug 6, 2020 | 14 comments

2136.

Twingate: New Linux Client & Designing Remote Access for Developers (twingate.com)

45 points by lrozner on Aug 19, 2020 | 12 comments

2137.

A guide to DevSecOps, shifting left, and GitOps (github.blog)

45 points by mayakacz on Aug 13, 2020 | 10 comments

2138.

The golden age of computer user groups (arstechnica.com)

45 points by rbanffy on Aug 20, 2020 | 10 comments

2139.

MS Paint IDE (github.com)

45 points by ProfDreamer on Aug 27, 2020 | 9 comments

2140.

Incentivized Guardianship (overcomingbias.com)

45 points by jordiw on Aug 1, 2020 | 9 comments

2141.

DHS had access to messages from Portland protesters, document shows (chron.com)

45 points by ycnews on Aug 2, 2020 | 2 comments

2142.

How we used Postgres extended statistics to achieve a 3000x speedup (build.affinity.co)

45 points by adamperelman on Aug 12, 2020 | 0 comments

2143.

1930s Household Refrigerators (2013) (musingsonentropy.com)

44 points by userbinator on Aug 26, 2020 | 60 comments

2144.

America's window of opportunity to beat back Covid-19 is closing (statnews.com)

44 points by aaronbrethorst on Aug 10, 2020 | 51 comments

2145.

Tipe raises $2.1M seed round to build a customizable CMS for developers (tipe.io)

44 points by tmvnty on Aug 25, 2020 | 46 comments

2146.

40M Americans are at risk of eviction without a stimulus bill (edition.cnn.com)

44 points by LinuxBender on Aug 7, 2020 | 44 comments

2147.

Standard Space Habitats (halcanary.org)

44 points by luu on Aug 24, 2020 | 43 comments

2148.

Bill Gates on Covid: Most US Tests Are ‘Completely Garbage’ (wired.com)

44 points by emptybits on Aug 7, 2020 | 37 comments

2149.

An overview of the science on function length (softwarebyscience.com)

44 points by tziki on Aug 29, 2020 | 35 comments

2150.

AdoptOpenJDK 8u265 Available (blog.adoptopenjdk.net)

44 points by based2 on Aug 15, 2020 | 31 comments

2151.

Rotting food, dead animals and chaos at postal facilities amid cutbacks (latimes.com)

44 points by ilamont on Aug 20, 2020 | 31 comments

2152.

Trump Says U.S. Should Get Slice of TikTok Sale Price (wsj.com)

44 points by dcgudeman on Aug 3, 2020 | 27 comments

2153.

We hacked 28,000 unsecured printers to raise awareness of printer security issue (cybernews.com)

44 points by Pick-A-Hill2019 on Aug 27, 2020 | 27 comments

2154.

Tell HN: Amazon Cloud Drive is banning encrypted content and backup data

44 points by hedora on Aug 26, 2020 | 25 comments

2155.

The telephone transformed – into almost everything (1993) (nytimes.com)

44 points by benbreen on Aug 10, 2020 | 18 comments

2156.

Baby boomers show concerning decline in cognitive functioning (news.osu.edu)

44 points by mrzool on Aug 3, 2020 | 16 comments

2157.

A massive fractal in days, not years [pdf] (jcgt.org)

44 points by strangecasts on Aug 11, 2020 | 16 comments

2158.

Comix-35 Home Computer (github.com)

44 points by sawaruna on Aug 3, 2020 | 13 comments

2159.

The pesticide that caused bee colonies to collapse is killing birds now (salon.com)

44 points by notRobot on Aug 19, 2020 | 11 comments

2160.

Tell HN: YC's First Lightning Tech Talk and Hiring Event Is on September 10th

44 points by ryankicks on Aug 11, 2020 | 10 comments